Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:49:51 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <4sconb-kun.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> <1b8qnb-ne9.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1w1UQASipMSyySFdo2ZPSgfX4QkwGjVZlHAec3kxZZMK4UgM98 X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:yiYsKXLgGglqMUUJJOpse4cP/b0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13257 On 05/01/15 12:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 05/01/15 11:15, Tim Watts wrote: >> On 04/01/15 23:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I said it was possible - in direct rebuttal to TNP's statement that >>>> only >>>> a broken kernel would break booting. >>>> >>> My point was that in a stable distro those other things simply do not >>> happen. >> >> I will agree if you lessen the statement to "usually do not happen" ;-) >> >> I've had a failing SSD and many instances of ReiserFS breaking (in 2002 >> ish) cause damage to /sbin/init and thus break the system - so it's more >> than a theoretical possibilty >> > > what nooob would ever use reiserFS? My colleague! Who then left and thus I ended up doing the swearing. Remember, it's easy to say with hindsight, but back in 2001-2 it looked like a pretty decent new idea when the alternative was ext2! > AND you have selectively quoted me. I explicitly said that reinstalling > an OS wont fix dodgy hardware. Did I - in that case, my apologies. I though were were talking about only kernel upgrades putting booting at risk?